Re: gPXE and Symantec Ghost

"Miller, Shao" <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:33:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wayne,

Alternatively, you could try extracting the "superfloppy" from the .sys
file.  Grab DD for Windows by John Newbigin and do:

dd if=foo.sys of=foo.vfd skip=8

which will skip the first 4096 bytes (8 512-byte sectors) of the .sys
file and output the "superfloppy" image.  Then you can use this disk
image with MEMDISK...  However...  You need to use PXELINUX as a
middle-man in order to keep the UNDI stack...

Your DHCP server would hand out 'pxelinux.0' as the boot-file.  Then
you'd need a pxelinux.cfg/default file containing something like the
following:

LABEL ghost
  KERNEL memdisk
  INITRD foo.vfd
  APPEND floppy keeppxe

It would appear that gPXE does indeed have a problem with either the
3Com Boot Services .pxe files, or possibly the .sys files.  I think that
the error message you reported is not accurate, but is the fall-through
message for whatever the actual error is.  Sorry!

- Shao Miller

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